Correction to: High-intensity aerobic interval training can lead to improvement in skeletal muscle power among in-hospital patients with advanced heart failure.

abstract：:We investigated the incidence of post-intubation hypotension (PIH) in hemodynamically stable patients with STEMI requiring rapid sequences intubation (RSI) and medicated with ketamine or midazolam as induction agent. STEMI patients admitted between 1st January 2009 and 1st January 2017 who did not receive any type of ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Zuin M,Rigatelli G,Dell'Avvocata F,Faggian G,Conte L,Giatti S,Michielan F,Roncon L

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to assess the atherosclerotic burden in patients with the first symptoms of coronary artery disease (CAD). The study population consisted of 100 consecutive patients (new-onset severe angina or myocardial infarction) and 70 age- and sex-matched volunteers without symptoms of CAD. Functional an...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Cerne A,Kranjec I

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While oxidized lipoprotein(a) (oxLp(a)) has been indicated to be involved in atherogenesis more than native lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)), there is still a need to elucidate the associations among oxLp(a), hypertension, and atherosclerosis. The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) is a recently developed index used to assess a...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kotani K,Yamada S,Yamada T,Kario K,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a prospective evaluation of the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in terms of clinical outcomes for small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) that were previously reported in a retrospective cohort study. We conducted a prospective non-randomized trial on patients with small AAA (N = 40; mean age...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nakayama A,Amiya E,Morita H,Hyodo K,Takayama N,Konishi Y,Taya M,Fujiwara T,Hosoya Y,Hoshina K,Komuro I

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early systole, before the effects of reflected waves from the periphery become significant, the following equation applies: PA - PO = rho cu (1) where PA and PO are the instantaneous and end-diastolic pressures in the ascending aorta, rho the density of blood, c the velocity of the pulse wave in the aorta, and u th...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Harada Y,Sugawara M,Beppu T,Higashidate M,Nakata S,Imai Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the signaling mechanism of stretch-induced cell remodeling in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Freshly dissociated HUVECs were cultured on an elastic silicon membrane and subjected to uniaxial cyclic stretch (20% in length, 1 Hz). The cells started to change their morphology as early as...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sokabe M,Naruse K,Sai S,Yamada T,Kawakami K,Inoue M,Murase K,Miyazu M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiopulmonary polygraphy (PG) demonstrates not only parameters for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) but also hemodynamics. We previously developed a software that detects lung to fingertip circulation time (LFCT) derived from PG dataset and reported that those LFCT reflected the cardiac output. The purpose of this s...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Tobushi T,Hosokawa K,Abe K,Kon-No S,Kadokami T,Nakamura R,Tsutsui H,Ando SI

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although apical and midventricular Takotsubo cardiomyopathies (TTCs) share common triggers and pathophysiological features, little is known about the potential differences in left ventricular (LV) mechanistic properties between these TTC phenotypes. We sought to investigate whether LV systolic and/or diastolic functio...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Messas N,Trimaille A,Marchandot B,Matsushita K,Kibler M,Hess S,Marquis-Gravel G,Jolicoeur EM,Jesel L,Ohlmann P,Morel O

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE), coronary arteriography, and thallium-201 myocardial imaging (TMI), we examined the characteristics and the role of collateral vessels in 35 patients with coronary artery lesions after Kawasaki disease. The male/female ratio was 25:10. The patients' ages are examination...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kinoshita Y,Suzuki A,Nakajima T,Ono Y,Arakaki Y,Kamiya T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess left ventricular diastolic properties in response to dynamic exercise, mitral inflow velocity integrals were measured by pulsed-wave Doppler echocardiography in ten patients with myocardial infarction and in ten normal subjects, and simultaneous left ventricular pressure was obtained with micromanometry in t...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nakamura N,Nonogi H,Miyazaki S,Nakanishi N,Yoshioka K,Haze K,Hiramori K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-sectional data suggest that the degree of coronary atherosclerosis is associated with aerobic fitness. However, there are limited longitudinal data addressing whether aerobic fitness is a predictor of coronary atherosclerosis progression. This study investigated whether peak oxygen consumption is related to a lo...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sung J,Cho SJ,Choe YH,Yoo S,Woo KG,Choi YH,Hong KP

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thrombotest (TT) technique has been widely used in Japan for monitoring oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT). The therapeutic range was originally recommended to be 10%-25%. However, the International Committee for Standardization in Hematology/International Committee on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ICSH/ICTH) recommend...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Uetsuka Y,Hosoda S,Kasanuki H,Aosaki M,Murasaki K,Ooki K,Inoue M,Akiyama E,Kitada M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although drug-eluting stents (DES) for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have dramatically reduced the incidence of in-stent restenosis, their deployment for large-size coronary lesions is still controversial because of problems such as late in-stent thrombosis and late catch-up in DES. We aimed to evaluate the...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Yoshida T,Sakata K,Nitta Y,Taguchi T,Kaku B,Katsuda S,Shimojima M,Gamou T,Nakahashi T,Konno T,Kawashiri MA,Yamagishi M,Hayashi K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No studies have evaluated both the time-to-isolation (TTI) and the sequence of pulmonary vein (PV) potentials in cryoballoon ablation (CBA) for atrial fibrillation (AF). This study aimed to prospectively evaluate the acute results of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) using a novel CBA technique-the earliest potential (EP...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Mizutani Y,Kanashiro M,Makino Y,Satake A,Suzuki W,Kurobe M,Mizutani K,Ichimiya H,Uchida Y,Watanabe J,Ichimiya S,Inden Y,Murohara T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subintimal or false lumen stent deployment is a rare complication of percutaneous coronary interventions. The most balloon-induced small non-flow limiting dissections heal spontaneously and can be treated medically with close observation if distal coronary flow is not compromised. However, the complex and severe flow-...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Omurlu K,Ozeke O

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distal anastomosis technique affects graft patency and long-term outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting, however, there is no standard for the appropriate length of distal anastomosis. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether longer distal anastomosis provides higher quality of distal anastomosis and bett...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Tsukui H,Shinke M,Park YK,Yamazaki K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies assessing vascular responses in nonexercising beds during exercise in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have yielded varying results. We proposed that the clinical and hemodynamic severity of heart failure may explain some of the variation. We reasoned that diastolic ventricular interaction (D...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Atherton JJ,Dryburgh LG,Thomson HL,Moore TD,Wright KN,Muehle GW,Fitzpatrick LE,Frenneaux MP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether trough-phase rivaroxaban concentrations provide sufficient anticoagulation needs more study. We evaluated levels of coagulation activation markers in the trough concentration phase in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients, and the correlation between these markers and rivaroxaban concentration. Fifty...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kitagawa F,Ishii J,Hiramitsu S,Takahashi H,Okuyama R,Kawai H,Muramatsu T,Harada M,Motoyama S,Naruse H,Matsui S,Sarai M,Hayashi M,Watanabe E,Izawa H,Ozaki Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery spasm is involved in the pathogenesis of various cardiac disorders. We investigated patients with a history of syncope who underwent elective coronary angiography. We retrospectively analyzed 5781 consecutive patients who had diagnostic or follow-up angiography during a 26-year period. During this peri...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sueda S,Kohno H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predictors of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) improvement after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with a preoperative reduced LVEF are limited. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to investigate the relationship between preprocedural valuvuloarterial impedance (ZVa), which represen...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Komatsu I,Hart C,Lau J,Spies C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, coronary diagnostic parameters, pressure drop coefficient (CDP: ratio of trans-stenotic pressure drop to distal dynamic pressure), and lesion flow coefficient (LFC: ratio of % area stenosis (%AS) to the CDP at throat region), were evaluated to distinguish levels of %AS under varying contractility condit...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Peelukhana SV,Kolli KK,Leesar MA,Effat MA,Helmy TA,Arif I,Schneeberger EW,Succop P,Banerjee RK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to assess the acute cardiopulmonary effects of a 100-mg oral single dose of sildenafil in patients with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (IPAH) using a well-validated but less-used noninvasive echocardiographic method for the measurement of both systolic and diastolic pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), by tric...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Behzadnia N,Najafizadeh K,Sharif-Kashani B,Dameshghi DO,Shahabi P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the interactions between cyclooxygenase (COX-2) and vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic switching, the two important coupling mechanisms of the vasculature on arterial remodeling in response to high laminal shear stress. High aortic blood flow was induced by creating a fistula in the ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Roan JN,Tsai YC,Chen IW,Chang SW,Huang CC,Lam CF

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inotropic effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on mammalian heart muscles were investigated. 5-HT (10(-8)-10(-3)M) produced increases in the contractile tension of atrial and ventricular muscles isolated from guinea pigs, Japanese monkeys, and humans, but not in rat heart preparations. The maximum percent increas...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Zaizen H,Imanishi S,Nasu M,Arita M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory markers are elevated in acute coronary syndromes, and are also known to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of neointimal proliferation and stent restenosis. Drug-eluting stents (DESs) have been shown to decrease stent restenosis in different studies. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Ozer N,Tangurek B,Firat F,Ozer S,Tartan Z,Ozturk R,Ozay B,Ciloglu F,Yilmaz H,Cam N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to recognize the blood flow velocity (BFV) through the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery and its small intramyocardial (IM) branches by transthoracic Doppler-echocardiography in patients with aortic stenosis (AS). Sixty-two patients, aged 74.0 ± 9.6 years, 37 women, with preserved left ventricul...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： de Gregorio C,Grimaldi P,Ferrazzo G,Di Bella G,Casale M,Arrigo F,Carerj S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the combined efficacy in prediction of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) by coronary regional physiological indices including coronary flow reserve (CFR) or fractional flow reserve (FFR) and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin-I (hs-cTnI) or N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Hamaya R,Yonetsu T,Kanaji Y,Usui E,Hoshino M,Hada M,Kanno Y,Murai T,Lee T,Kakuta T

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wire crossing of a chronic total coronary occlusion (CTO) is time consuming and limited by the amount of contrast agent and time of radiation exposure. Magnetic wire navigation (MWN) might accelerate wire crossing by maintaining a coaxial vessel orientation. This study compares MWN with the conventional approach for r...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Roth C,Berger R,Scherzer S,Krenn L,Gangl C,Dalos D,Delle-Karth G,Neunteufl T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the therapeutic principles and strategies to treat sustained ventricular tachycardia (SVT) as five leading medical institutions in the Tokyo area and summarized the present situation of SVT treatment in Japan. Catheter ablation (ABL) has been almost established to be effective in idiopathic ventricular...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Ogura H,Katoh T,Kasanuki H,Iinuma H,Ozawa Y,Majima S,Hayakawa H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intravenous enoximone on forearm venous circulation was studied in ten healthy volunteers (group A) and in ten patients with NYHA class III-IV congestive heart failure (group B). Distensibility of the forearm capacitance vessels was assessed from pressure-volume curves by venous occlusion plethysmography...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Branzi A,Berardi C,Ferretti RM,Beato E,Magnani G,Melandri G,Zannoli R,Magnani B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00